Swordsman Archive

Hey all, I'm thinking about dropping master pistoleer in a move to go to master swordsman, since pistoleer's specials seem to be fairly broke, and was wondering about the state of yours... and also which swordsman weapon is best overall... I would assume power hammer, but the dx2 is craptastic compared to marksman weapons....

There are 4 moves that do the same thing (AE posture change) and 2 moves that do something different than what the game says they do (one says blind but dizzies). The AE posture change moves are area attacks 1-3 and two-hand sweep 2 (sweep 1 is a single target posture change). Two hand hit 3 and area attack 3 sometimes do dizzy, even though the description forarea attack3 says it blinds and the description for two hand hit 3 doesn't say that it does any state changing moves.

The two best weapons are the two handed curved sword and the power hammer. I use damage sliced versions of both.

Thanks for the info! Your mind hits work right, correct? How bad are the delays on the specials (I looked in stickied threads but must of missed them....)....I'd probably be picking this up mainly for pvp, I'm assuming you can use specials normally while burst running.... thanks again for the help

Dont switch to a melee class for the sake of PvPing, you will just get disappointed. In Close quarters, 2h swordsmen are gods, but there is still little chance that you can get there in a one on one situation.

Disregarding pvp, I went ahead and have started up the heavy swordsman tree... the best part so far was the 33% damage slice on my power hammer It's a lot more fun than spamming stopping shot, and I can't wait to hit masterhood (should be a week or two)... I'm at advaced finesse now (had a lot of combat xp banked) and am wondering which other tree I should go up first.... I was thinking of trying togo up the line with the improved speed and mind hits, is there something I'm missing that's more appealing about the other lines?

Well, while we are not technically gimped in pvp, we normally only stand a welks chance in supernova of beating a ranged player. However, there are a few tactics that can help improve the odds a bit:

Never engage someone in the open unless you can find some cover close at hand. My favorite places in a city are the medcenter, or clonecenter, due to the small entrance hallways. They cannot hit your from outside, and if they truely want to try and finish you off, they are going to have to come in and get you. Now if they do come in, there is not alot of room to move around or run too. So smack them with a mindbleed, and as many head hits as you are worth, and let them bring on the pain.

Be sure to have buffs, and I recommend taking a good deal of medic.

Using these basic strategies, I can beat pretty much everything except bounty hunters. Somehow they are just a bit too tricky for me. And TKA.... its just luck of the draw there.

I haerd of a weapon called a Maul, it's like a big powerhammer, anyone know anything about these? I think I just jacked my own thread....

If you feel pistol is "broke", don't go swordsman/pikeman/carabineer/rifleman/fencer. There are a lot more non working skills and mods in those professions than in the pistol profession

Pistol has issues, but most other professions have as luchincomplete/redundant/not working as advertised specials, including swordmsan (redundant nerfed area posture downs, skills not working as described)

techniques, defense, offense. getting tech tree first will let you use the hammer more often and level fast because of it.

Pistol seems far from broke, as far as most classes go. Stacking rogue on top of it makes a pistol user **edit** near unbeatable.(spamming 1000 point shots in pvp vs composite once per second. yikes)

my only problem with swordsman is that i die from HAM costs.. i duel people and i ask them after how they killed me so fast after i had delayed them and knocked them down and dizzied them and intimidated them.. they then answer that they only hit me once for only around 100 dmg, that i had done all the dmg myself

ARG...

Ham costs i hate them, i think it might be head hit 3.. maybe i should revert back to head hit 2, dint notice any over-exagerated hamcost there.. or maybe when i was there we just had lower ham costs.

*cough* *Cough* that's cuz you are using a curved sword the WORST weapon to use in pvp.the ham drains on the sword are the worst thing i have ever seen. even worse then my power hammer even with the 100 health drain i never see it i always have more action drian. So this is where the cleaver/ two-handed axe comes into play such a low ham cost slightly lower damage raitio for the cleaver and a bit slower but i do less damage to my self. And if i had a cleaver with the perfect damage slice it would have been awsone in pvp.

But really curved sword i have never liked i have always seen that i kill my self 100 times faster with that weapon then any other. i like to call the two-handed curved sword (what carbineer feels like) drains hams so fast it's rediculous. like each special it' aroun 70 action points gone. it's really not worth the DPS.

After months of playing my Wookie as a Master Smuggler...and realizing that content is still lackluster...Ive decided to role-play my Wookie a bit

Any Swordsman out there Wookies? I was thinking of going Doc/Master Swordsman...do Wookies fare ok without armor in PvP and PvE?